Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baroness Orczy

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine

John Muir

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

Bernard of Clairvaux

What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.

Dennis Miller

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

David Mitchell

Music’s a wood you walk through.

Elijah Wood

Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser!

Daniel Radcliffe

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.

Daniel Radcliffe

I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.

Duncan Sheik

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records

Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Charles Dickens

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

Charles Caleb Colton

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

Charles Caleb Colton

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

Charles Caleb Colton

In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.

Charles Dickens

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

Charles Dickens

Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.

Billy Idol

I rocked the cradle of love.

Jerry A. Webman

A lot of the state-sponsored growth in India was just too fast. You went from cradle to Nirvana in a short period of time.

Milton Perry

Once we got hold of him you could cradle him like a baby,

John Dyer

A little rule, a little sway, / A sunbeam in a winter's day, / Is all the proud and mighty have / Between the cradle and the grave.

Thomas H. Huxley

The cradle of every science is surrounded by dead theologians as that of Hercules was with strangled serpents

Georges Bernanos

[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.

William Wallace

For the hand that rocks the cradle - Is the hand that rules the world

Henrik Ibsen

Sleep, O sleep, my dearest boy. / I will cradle you, I will guard you.

Steve Stockman

Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions on government power while doing it.